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' UN'TEB STATESl PATENT Ormea.

. W. H. SMITH, oF NEW YonK,.N.' r.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,876, dated January 2, 1866.

To all 'whom vit may concern:

Beit known that I, W ILLARD H. lISMITH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Hydrocarbon-Vapor Burner for Heating andCooking -Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use -the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which- A is theoil-res'ervoir. Y L B is a conduit pipe, in two parts, the horizontal part bein g iilled with woven wire, 'or its equivalent, having a screw-gage to regulate the ilow of oil. The lip-right section ot' this conduit and the oil-reservoir, not being a part of my invention, fornno part of the model, and are shown in the drawing` only to show how the device is connected with the oil-reservoir. v C is a cylindrical chamber in which combustion beginsto generate the vapor.

' -D i'san oil-chamber passing quite around the dame-chamber, wherein the oil is heated and converted into gas or vapor.

E is a pipe to convey the vapor to the inner hollow tube, F.

G isa larger tubcsurrouuding the other,

Y bothforaminous at their lower ends, as represented, to admit air freely to the burner, with an intermediate space between them for its iiow, and also to admit the flame to rise from the spirit-basin, hereinafter described.4

H is a detlector placed on the top of the tube F. rlFhe chamber C is iliade large enough for the tube G to be raised to fill the spirit-basin K, andhas on its top the larger deliector L -Both the deeotors have holes, as shown in the drawing.-

J is a' gage with a point, screw, and wheel to regulate the ilow of vapor into-the tube F.

K is a small basin to hold a small quantity of spirit to heat the generator and start it iu'to operation.

The operation is as follows: The tube G is I Araised and the basin K supplied with spirit,

which is lighted, the lame whereof rises and 4heats the generator. 'The oil is then suffered to flow in proper quantit.y,regnlated by the gage in tube B, into the oil-chamber D, where 4it is converted into vapor which iiows through the pipe E, regulated. by the gage J, into the tube F. lt there meets the flow of atmospheric air admitted through the-'small holes at the lower ends of the tubes, and the oil-vapor and air are thoroughly mixed and rise to the iiame L, passing first through the deiiector H, where combustion begins, and after heating the oil in chamber l) rises through the deilector Iin a perfect flame to hea-t any vessel or stove placed above it. t

The vessel or basin K is specially adapted for burning'naphtha as wellA as alcohol.

Having thus fully described the mode of construction and the operation ot' my burner, I claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent- L 'The flame-chamber or vapor-generator C, surrounded by the annular oil-chamber D, which passes quite around the dame. This form I prefer, bu-t it my pass around only onehalf thereof. f

2. The tubes F and (hier their equivalents, one within the other, with an air-space between them, and with their foraminous lower ends for the ad mission of air, with the detlector H on the top of the tube F, and the deiiector I n'the top of the name-chamber C, substatitially as and for the purposes set forth.'

3. The iiame-chamber G, in combination with the' oil-chamber and deiiectors aforesaid, for the purposes described.

4.. The burner in all its parts, constructed and arranged, 'as rep-resented and described,

for the uses and purposes Iherein set forth. W. H. SMITH.

4 .Vitnesses-Q'` JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD, J oHN D. BLooR. 

